Guild Wars 2

Hello, I think many of us are very excited by the fun navigation that mounts offer in open world pve. But, I also want to point out that maybe mounts could be used in new innovative ways in a raid setting.

Here are 2 examples of mounts used in one of my favorite games, shadow of the colossus. In the first video, the mount is used to move into offensive position. In the second, the mount is used defensively.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GpLOIp5rOTk
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-wT5WrKt1vA

I am interested in what you guys think? I would definitely like to see one or two unique encounters that really took advantage of mounts.

Mounts in their current form can’t be used in combat and only have an engage skill to help you there. I think if they are used in raids you use them to solve things simliar to twisted castle.

Well remember, originally gliders had no combat skills either, but bloodstone fen showed us the evolution of that technology. Just because you can not do combat on mounts yet, doesn’t mean it can never happen.

Its not a technology problem, the engage skill proves that. Its a design choice. They don’t want us to be playing the game from on top of mounts. Mounts are meant purely as a movement mastery, just like gliding or mushrooms.

well again, they could do this like they did bloodstone fen. Giving us standardized abilities in only a specific map (the raid map).

I would be shocked if there were not an Escort-like event in raids that utilized mounts in some fashion.

honestly after watching some of wp’s videos and such, it seems like we don’t really move that much faster with mounts. If we are not moving faster, I don’t know how much of an impact mounts will have. Maybe the camera zoom was deceptive. Hopefully we can test it a bit in a week.

That would be an obvious choice to make the new raids require both HoT and PoF. So, i wouldn’t be surprised if, even if the boss battles themselves would not need mounts, they’d still be necessary to move past some checkpoints inside a raid wing (in a manner similar to how gliding is required to move past some points in already existing wings).